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...about the human experience. People shouldn’t be coming in tense and worried about having an opinion,” says Ragin.Each of the six individuals’ stories contains similar, overlapping themes—such as hope and redemption in the midst of such a trying ordeal??and their individual narratives are knit together in vignettes that follow their respective arrests, interrogation, incarceration, and eventual exoneration. The theatrical presentation of these paralleled stories questions the presence of justice in the American legal system, while also delving into meaningful moral issues in a more personal...
...This entire ordeal??Summers’ presidency and the embarrassing controversies that plagued it from the beginning—boil down to two fundamental problems: style and ethics. Everyone knows that Larry Summers was brought to Harvard to “shake things up.” For better and for worse, he has done that. His penchant for brash, inflammatory, and often vulgar statements is legendary. Indeed, it is difficult to find a faculty member at Harvard who doesn’t have a “Larry story”: an account of some unpleasant encounter...
...film chronicles Meredith’s first encounter with meeting the parents, and like the Ben Stiller movie, there are squeamish scenes aplenty as she fails to capture the hearts of the family Stone. It’s a tortuous ordeal??but Parker’s character is just such a bitch, you understand why the Stone family hates her and seriously wonder why Everett fell for her in the first place...
...lack of confidence” vote, the latter of which ended with 218 faculty voting a lack of confidence in Summers. Not only were these measures ineffective—members of the Harvard Corporation were unlikely to fire Summers, whom they supported throughout the ordeal??they were unnecessary. Summers needs time to finish many of his initiatives such as Allston, and the grievances raised by the Faculty do not make a compelling enough case for his resignation...
...Speaking of my mother, she wasn’t quite as helpful through this whole process as I would have hoped. Firstoff, she found the whole ordeal??which I classified as “The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done to Myself Ever”—to be extremely amusing. She laughed at me whenever the opportunity arose, which was all the time...
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